Quotes by

Derek Walcott

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I study the stars. – Derek Walcott

The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. – Derek Walcott